About the only thing people remember is that Trump was criticised heavily by the mainstream media for closing the US border to Europe than everyone else close their borders within the next 72 hours.
He is also talking about reopening the economy soon. That will resonate with a number of people who accept that the economy cannot remain shut permanently or for so long that many businesses are ruined.
Sweden is a test case because all it is practising is social distancing and the old people should stay home. They have the same infection rates each day is Norway and Denmark so maybe they are right.
Lately, Trump’s behavior relative to the pandemic has not only not been Presidential, but positively puerile. He’s trying to deny New York the ventilators it needs, he’s dissing CEOs, and—what really irks me—he’s threatening to punish states whose governors don’t toady to him. What kind of leadership is that? And yet we know that his approval rating has risen to about 50%—the highest since he’s been elected.
That “bump” depressed me, making me worry that he’ll be reelected—and shame on our country if, after four years of his insanity, they allow it to continue—but Jon Chait at New York Magazine feels otherwise. The title of his piece says it all, but click the screenshot to read.
Chait thinks the bump is temporary because all leaders get a bounce when there’s a national crisis. Further, Trump’s Bump is much smaller than those enjoyed by other leaders, including Boorish Johnson, Emmanuel Macron…
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